An iPad 3 'Retina Display' Comparison Graphic

Does anyone else hate the marketing term 'Full HD' ?

I still say it's a waste. I was never really "wow"ed by the iPhone 4 display, my 200 DPI Titan does the job just as well.

You can't be serious.

ipad 3 is going to be my first

I mean, really.

All you sad, number obsessed, tech fanboys please feel free to vote down my post as I know you will; it won't help you to lose your virginity

Actually, being quite experienced in sex, i can certainly say it's about quality not quantity - which is exactly what this new screen is about.

If you use an iPhone 4/4s with the retina display and then go back to your iPad - then the display does seem pixelated and blocky. They could have chosen HD resolution - but then you are left with the issue of upscaling graphics - but if you double the resolution then you have a really simple method of achieving this, via a method most developers will be familiar with.

I guess Apple's desire to go with this extended resolution relates to the perceived quality of the display. It isn't necessarily intended for games, but for all uses of the iPad. Remember that small thing called Newsstand in the iOS 5 update - this would turn the iPad from an acceptable magazine substitution, into a really impressive one - same for all documents really.

Lastly - we're not the ones who are obsessed by virginity (don't worry, it will be the best 5 seconds of your life when it happens)

Crisper text, graphics apps, less demanding games will be able to look stunning. Anything that needs more oomph can use 2x pixel doubling and it'll still look great.

The PS3, for example, has most games in 720p. Those in 1080p look brilliant, but it's obviously more demanding on the hardware.

Something else that strikes me looking at the comparison graphic is it looks just about right to serve as a TV controller with a live stream and some soft buttons underneath... Hmm...

All that said... to still be selling low bit-rate 720p movies on iTunes will look even sillier when this thing is released. I have to admit it'll be a bit amusing reading many of the same people that told Blu-ray fans like me that there's no real difference between watching things in 720p and 1080p on a small screen fawn over the new display.

But anyway... higher resolution is great, as long as the hardware can handle it, which I'm sure it will.

Now what I'd really love is to make it PS3 and/or Xbox controller compatible and get major games companies on board with it. That would be interesting.

Does anyone else hate the marketing term 'Full HD' ?

Yes, but it's not as bad as Apple calling their low bit-rate 720p iTunes vids 'HD'. And neither are as bad as 'HD Ready'. My living room was 'HD Ready' in about 1950. It had a plug socket!

But I agree. For me, 720p / 1080i/1080p are more useful terms. What are they going to call 2k or 4k? Super Full HD? Super Full HD Turbo Championship Edition With A Cherry On Top? Maths Is Too Difficult For The Likes Of You HD?

That is, assuming that the iPad 3 does come with the long rumored "Retina Display".

For once MacRumors did not say "X unreleased Apple product will have X feature". MacRumors just said "assuming it has".

Well done. Hope this is not a one off. And all the future articles can be like this. I don't have any high hopes of this happening though. But hey we all could be pleasantly surprised with some better worded articles in the future. That'd be nice.

I still say it's a waste. I was never really "wow"ed by the iPhone 4 display, my 200 DPI Titan does the job just as well.

That's not even funny man. I can't comprehend how people can complain about this. I think anyone downplaying the importance of high resolution displays should have their eyes checked. Because normal people CAN tell the difference.

I still say it's a waste. I was never really "wow"ed by the iPhone 4 display, my 200 DPI Titan does the job just as well. Yes, it's a cool thing to boast, and show off, but at the end of the day I'd rather have a high-res desktop where the extra pixels actually go towards something useful. Although I guess my opinion is a bit slanted because I don't think the iPad is a particularly useful device in the first place. To each his own. I'd still love this resolution on my next laptop.

Not really to each their own. The screen was a definite "wow" feature when compared to the iPhone 3GS.



Maybe you never had an iPhone 3GS before you bought the 4, or maybe you don't even have an iPhone? :confused:

What's with all the negativity? It doesn't even make sense on the most basic of levels. Obviously this will happen, and be a good thing. How do we know this? Because they already did it with the iPhone screen and the results were great. Also, we've had leaked parts and such for months now. And, well, simple logic would state that this is the direction Apple and every other tablet company is going in.

Apple's been wanting to drastically increase the DPI on all of their products for years now. Remember resolution independence on OS X? It's simply taken this long to start getting the manufacturing at the right place for large screens with tiny pixels to exist.

Are you all totally new to MacRumors, and Apple news in general, and tech news in general, that this is such a surprise? Are you really so astonished that the natural progression of technology has come so far? Are you so ignorant of Apple's past with the iPhone that you think Apple would not be interested in bringing "retina" displays to their other products, and how they would go about doing it?

I just don't understand how people can be seriously questioning the veracity of a retina display on an iPad, or saying it's a bad thing for Apple to have done this. Apple is capable of the feat, clearly, and it's been a success already. I don't understand how people can claim that video will actually look worse on four pixels in the place of one. They're square, you know, you can just put that one old pixel onto four new ones and it'll look exactly the same. I really don't understand how people can suggest that because seven year old game consoles can only output 720 or 1080p, a modern system can't handle more than that, even something so basic as mere text. Yes, a phone is smaller than an game console, but technology marches on, and things get faster and smaller.

None of the other iPad 3 rumors about the display have elicited such silly negative responses that I've seen, but this topic is filled to the brim. Did I slip into some bizarro world where people hate new, better technology?